Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:35:20 -0400 | From | Florin Malita <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote: > >>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have >>> a right to modify that copy. >>> >> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software? >> > > Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in > the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled > to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it. >
No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike you).
So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not (cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to deploy the software on a particular platform.
--- fm
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